{"pk":3332,"title":"Book review of Hollow City: the Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Solnit and Schwartzenberg chronicle the real Y2k problem in San Francisco: a fin de siècle real estate boom and accelerated crisis of hous- ing displacement, as experienced by the City’s artists and cultural activ- ists. It’s the direct result of the World Wide Web, the propulsive growth of the internet economy, and a more long-standing spillover of unmet housing demand from the fabled Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco. Class conflict is front and center as developers and ‘dot-com-mers,’ fu- eled by incomes inflated with venture capital, threaten the homes and haunts of a particularly vital arts community. Over the course of several generations, San Francisco artists have turned voluntary poverty and “marginality” into an industry of culture—an economic force in a global city fed by tourism, corporate headquarters, and grants from the Na- tional Endowment for the Arts.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"book review"},{"word":"urbanism"},{"word":"San Francisco"},{"word":"planning"}],"section":"Book Reviews","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16c133nf","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Morris","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-01-23T22:03:44Z","date_accepted":"2012-01-23T22:03:44Z","date_published":"2012-01-23T22:04:28Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3332/galley/2102/download/"}]}